16 days -- 16 days into his presidency, he signed a tax on tobacco users. which is about a quarter of the country, but the only person in the country who smokes cigarettes and earns more than 2 $250,000 a year is named barack obama. so it only took him 16 days to go from i'll never to whacking middle and lower income people because the point of promising you only tax the other is to get the tax in, to get in the wedge, to get in the tent. so that everybody can pay for it. so what do we do? where do we go now? pretty easy. do all the things that obama did and undo them. spend less. tax less. regulate less. stop going after every effort to create and develop energy in the united states, to stop driving energy costs and gasoline prices higher and higher as obama's

policies have done. take the trial lawyers and put them in plastic bags and drop them in the river. [ applause ] there are a series of things that if you do, we know that the economy will grow because id's happened before and when we watch us move in the wrong direction, the economy contracts. simple answer is cut spending, cut tax, have less regulation. okay. how do we get there? one, we need to maintain -- we need to have a conservative house of representatives majority. a 60-seat majority of conservatives in the senate. [ applause ] it's not good enough to have 51 or 52 or 53 because of the filibuster. and we need a conservative republican in the white house to sign the bills that the house and senate send. [ applause ] the news is good. in the house we start with a 25-seat majority for republicans.

it's -- there's a conservative majority as well as a republican majority in the house at present. we need to build on that, thanks to redirecting because we picked up so many -- there are 24 states where the republicans have the governorship and the democrats only run 11 states completely. california, connecticut, vermont. 24 -- the republicans run else and 11 that the ds run everything. of course, the country is moving in exactly as you might expect growth versus not growth in that division. but what we have with redirecting is help there because the republicans that picked up house seats in ohio and indiana and michigan and wisconsin and all those also picked up state legislative seats. so redirecting should give us a republican and a conservative majesty in the hou majority in the house not for the next couple of years, but for the next decade.

[ applause ] okay. we're only a third of the way there, guys. that's the house. good news on the senate. we have 47 republican senators. not that many conservative senators but we are getting there. we need to pick up 60 serious senators in the u.s. senate. the good news is the next two election cycles make this very possible. in 2012, there are 23 democratic seats up and only ten republican seats. this is a target-rich environment. these are people who survived the prodemocrat, anti-bush landslide of 2006. and two years later, 20 ds up and 13 republicans. so in the next two election cycles, '12 and '14, there are 43 democrats senators up. more than half of which are in red states and ought to be flipable. the republican -- yes. 43 seats, more than 23 targets. and there are 23 republicans up.

really only one of which you'd worry about. again, the reason why we have this target-rich environment and all of our income that's almost of our income, very, very secure and very strong is that in '06 and '08 we did so poorly. now, some of you may have wondered back then what karl rove and bush were thinking, but now we were seeing we were cleverly giving them away so we can take the democrats all back off the table in '12 and '14. when they weren't suspecting it. and this is very good, because there's every reason to believe we have a republican majority and frankly a conservative majority after this election, in '12, in the senate. and 60 votes in the senate after 2014. and while you don't redistrict states the nice people who drew the map of the united states redistricted it in such way that we have the lovely square states

out in the west that three people live in. and if we carried the senate seats that we carry at the presidential level, even at a -- in a weak year we should have 60-plus republican senators on a regular basis. now step three. again, the one i do worry about is our friend in massachusetts, scott brown. he's been a hero in fighting the government-run healthcare. he should win re-election. i just warn you before i am a -- i used to live in massachusetts. and it's just a tough state. so focus on that, he should win. he's great guy and he helped poke the first hole in obamacare and hopefully will be there to see us get rid of obamacare completely. now, on the white house, all we have to do is replace obama. here's the challenge. he was a very, very good candidate in 2008. he's not a very good president. so a year ago, he decided since

he wasn't a good president, but he was a good candidate, he'd go back to being a candidate. so for the last year and for this next year, you've got candidate obama. you don't have a guy being president. it's like william henry harrison. he wasn't quite president as long as the other guys. he's decided it's too much work and he's going to be a candidate and so when you're trying to negotiate with him or work on legislation, forget about i. you're talking to a candidate. there are a couple of quick thoughts on why we have had some angst on the republican side for the presidential level. the first is, good news. we have all these candidates and conservatives haven't picked one. or with serial monogamy they have picked one at a time and fallen in love. but the reason for that is that unlike about 52, eisenhower/taft, reagan bush, these guys were auditioning to run the party in different directions. okay? and so what happened? we now have a reagan republican

party that everybody that ran for president wants to the run as ronald reagan which is why you have conservatives supporting each of the candidates. it's called winning. it's not a problem. it's confusing, but it's winning. second, we are not auditioning for fearless leader. we don't need a president to tell us what direction we want to go. we want the paul ryan budget which cuts spending $6 trillion. [ applause ] this is very easy. block grants all of the 77, plus welfare systems. takes the unfunded liabilities and makes them fully funded and individually controlled by individualers. it takes spending down to 20% and then down to 15% in out years. the republicans in the house have passed 24-plus bills that strip out regulations. we just need a president to sign this stuff.

we don't need someone to think it up or design it. we have a house and a senate. the leadership now for the modern conservative movement for next 20 years is coming out of the house and the senate. so focus on electing the most conservative republican who can win in each house seat, and the most conservative republican who can win in each senate seat, and then pick a republican with much working digits to handle the pen to become president of the united states. this is a change and the democrats actually have been running everything out of the house and the senate for a long, long time. this is a change for republicans to realize that the body of where we're going to be as house and senate work with the presidents signing bills. the democrats -- obama has made two decisions since he was president. okay. i mean, they came to him and said sign the stimulus bill, sign the healthcare bill.

he would sign it present. and he -- okay, he tripled the number of troops in afghanistan. he decided to participate in libya. those are the two things that the democrats in congress didn't hand him, sign this, move on. they're used to having a president who reads in the teleprompters and signs stuff. we can do that better than that, but we need at least someone who understands his job is to be captain of the team and to sign the legislation that's already prepared, already worked through and has been there for conservatives. that said, guys, we're going to win. we just have to remember the only thing lacking is a great deal of work. whining is not work. if we do the work, we will win and we will stop their effort. we're going to remain america. we're not going to be france. we're going to remain america.

we're not going to be greece and we're not going to be chicago. thank you. yes, not chicago. absolutely not. we're going to win this! let's go! former alaska governor and 2008 republican vice presidential nominee, sarah palin, was the keynote speaker at the closing session of cpac's annual meeting in washington. her remarks run 40 minutes. >> thank you so much! thank you, cpac. thank you so much. what an honor. thank you so much, cpac. thank you. i appreciate it.

thank you so much. i am so honored to get to be here. thank you, cpac. ♪ happy birthday to you >> thank you for the birthday greetings. you are wonderful. thank you so much. and to millie and all of her good work at the nra as a lifetime member of the nra i so appreciate her efforts there, protecting our second amendment rights. thank you, millie. she's not just a mama grizzly, but a mama grizzly who's probably packing, so didn't mess with millie. truly, i thank you so much and i am honored to get to be here. the last time i was in d.c. my family and i were here cruising

on harley-davidsons with rolling thunder which is the rally, the rally to honor america's finest, our united states military, our veterans of war. [ applause ] nothing says america louder or prouder than chopped harley hogs driven by our heroes, those vets. now, when we were here last, my husband todd he was able to drive one of those 400,000 machines that day. he traded in the bike though for a snow machine this week. he's back home gearing up for his 2,000 mile race across alzheime alaska, the iron dog, so he couldn't be here. but bristow and willow are here with me today. i'm glad they're with us. you know why rolling thunder

chose washington for their rally? they wanted to make their engines the choice. and that's why cpac started back in the 1970s. they wanted the republican party to hear us. at the 1975 cpac, ronald reagan, he laid out a blue print for rebuilding the gop under a banner of bold colors, not pale pastels. ever since then, cpac has been the rally for conservative action and that's why i am glad to be here today with all of you conservative activists. now, today the conservative movement has never been stronger or brighter with people at the grass roots. and yet, the federal government has never cast a bigger shadow. so for the last three years, we

have been waving a bold banner that shouts don't tread on me. you see, the tea party rose up because americans woke up. and our movement, it is bigger than one person. it is bigger than one candidate. it is bigger than one party. it's about one country united under god. we aren't red americans. we're not blue americans. we're red, white and blue and president obama, we are through with you.

we paid for three years of his administration and we cannot afford for more. candidate obama, he promised to fundamentally transform america and that's one promise that he has kept. transforming a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship. promising to cut the deficits in half. and instead, he's piled on trillions more in debt, trillions more. $135,000 per taxpayer just in this new debt. $3 million more a minute. and no plan to stop it. no plan. no budget. going on a thousand and some odd days and still no budget. he mucked it up. [ applause ] folks, this government isn't too big to fail. it's too big to succeed.

it's too big to ignore, and it is too big to bear any more. now, what did we get in return for the president's spending spree? 8.5% unemployment and 13 million americans who can't find work. 46 million living in poverty. now, government dependency under obama has gone up 23%. and for the first time in our history, folks are fearing that our future is going to be worse than our past. and look around. you can see some decline. you can see failure, but it is not a failure of the american people. it is not a failure of america itself. it is the failure of our leadership. [ applause ] but we know how to change that. oh, yes, we do.

oh, yes, we can. hope and change, yeah. you got to hope things change. it's change that we can believe in. change that we need. it's the change i want to talk about today because to borrow another phrase from our president, we can't wait. our country hangs in the balance. usa, usa, usa! usa, usa, usa! usa, usa, usa!

>> sarah, sarah, sarah! sarah, sarah, sarah! >> you see, you just won. you see how easy that is? we can't wait. we must come together as constitutional conservatives to save our republic. america has reached her tipping point. the door is open though, folks. declare it. the door is open. now, if they keep trying to tax and take and spend our way to

prosperity, we know where we'll end up. just look to the old world to see the new world's future. it's a future of downsizing and down turns and downgrades. now, that's the future of the far left dream and it's not a future we will ever accept. but president obama has a different view. it's kind of the conflict of visions thing. when i listened to his state of the union last month, i was really struck that he barely mentioned unemployment and entitlements. what did he talk about? he gave us more promises.

promises to give us, quote, an ability built to last. well, mr. president, we don't want an economy built to last. we want an economy built to grow and we certainly don't want your economy built to last. we want your administration to end. it's amazing in the history of the republic, never has there been such a gaping disconnect between how our own president sees the state of the union and how the americans see the state of the union.

he actually believes that we are headed in the right direction. even those with their boots on the ground, their nose to the grind stone, we're headed into the right direction. we can't believe that our economy can't get underway, unless the government gets out of the way. the president wants to raise taxes. so he can redistribute wealth. we want to cut taxes so we can create more wealth. government digging us deeper and deeper into debt, it's not because it taxes too little. it's because it spends too much. we know how to deal with that debt. you cut it, gut it, get rid of it. americans shouldn't have to spend their lives working so

hard, so washington can spend easy. he says that he has a jobs plan now. a jobs plan to win the future. wtf, i know. and i'm the idiot. wtf plan. well, he'll invest your money in bullet trains to nowhere but he'll stop boeing from building airplanes anywhere. bankrupt green energy companies, give sweet loans and grant offers, but oil pipelines, not allowed to give you job offers. we say his plan isn't winning the future. it is losing our country. we have a better jobs plan and it's called the free market and

it worked before this president and it will work again after this president. he says that we need more of his financial regulations. we say, go ask mf global customers how happy they with his regulatory agencies. where were they when jon corzine lost $1 billion of customer funds? remember, his washington regulatory wizards, they didn't prevent the financial meltdown. these folks have helped cause it and you had to bail them out. the president says, well, small americans, small town americans, we bitterly cling to our

religion and our guns because we're just doggone frustrated with his pace of change. you say, i say, we say keep your change, we'll keep our god, our guns, our constitution. see, professor obama may have forgotten the bill of rights. but we shall not forsake it. including those rights that our founders risked their lives for. freedom of religion, our right to bear arms. we will rise up and defend them. the president believes your tax

dollars should subsidize oh, planned parenthood. we believe -- we believe that every child is created equal, with that right to life. and i asked you to stand up for those who cannot stand for themselves. if not us, then who? thank you. the president believes that we need to consolidate power, centralize power, big power in washington because you just can't be trusted to make decisions for yourself. not about your health insurance,

not about your gas mileage. not even about your light bulbs. well, we believe it's time to return the power to the american people. that's where the constitution entrusted it and that's where it belongs again today, people. now, perhaps this distrust of us is because he seems to believe that america is actually a destructive force in the world. that we should apologize to enemies. he believes that we should share our missile defense technology with the kremlin. he believes we should make deep cuts in our military while other nations are building up their militaries. deep cuts to our troops while we keep on spending wildly on everything else. tax about priorities. now, today, the white house is actually trying to negotiate

with the taliban. while, at the same time, they're watching helplessly as iran moves perilously close to developing their nukes and the icbms to deliver them. we say the number one constitutional duty that belongs to the commander in chief is prote protecting this nation and our allies. god bless israel. all our president needs to understand that. he needs to understand what you understand. that is that america's brave fighting sons and daughters are asked to risk their lives for. if only he would understand that. this isn't some international

community organizing we're talking about or social welfare networking that's going on. we will never apologize for america's greatness and we will refuse to accept that a weak america means a better and safer world. we're going to put our confidence in the strength of our armed forces, not the hollow promises of our adversaries. and not the cleverness of our diplomats and our bureaucrats. as generations before us, they like we now will gladly, proudly fight to defend this land of the free. we must be home of the brave. one reason our president i believe has such a skewed view

tucked inside washington, he doesn't get out to see much of real america. now, 11 months from now, yeah, he'll have his chance to spend his time outside d.c. all of it. when he comes down from his lofty office and he's finished, you know, rolling back the tides and lowering the sea levels or snow drifts or avalanches, whatever all those promises were. whenever he's finished with all of that, then he's going to see that the facts on the ground are much different. the divide between washington and the rest of the country, it has never been greater and it has never been more dangerous. while america struggles, washington prospers. and while our real estate markets